The Queensland Rocketry Society is presenting a display of model rocketry at the Logan City Council’s Grand Fiesta on Saturday 10^th May 2008.

Come and see what model rocketry is all about. We will have rockets ranging from the 2.7 metre long HyperLOC 1600 down to small water rockets, as well as everything to build and launch model rockets. Experienced members from the Queensland Rocketry Society will be on-hand to show you our rockets and answer any questions you might have.

The Grand Fiesta will be held at the Logan Gardens, located on Civic Parade at Logan Central. Entry to the festival is free for everyone. There is free parking behind the Logan Entertainment Centre, 170 Wembley Road, Logan Central.

The festival starts at 12:00 noon. The QRS display will be operating until about 4:00pm. You won’t be able to miss us. Most QRS club members will be wearing bright yellow T-shirts emblazoned with the QRS logo.

The Grand Fiesta has entertainment, arts, crafts and activities for the whole family. Follow this link for more information about the festival.

We hope to see you there!

This launch went off without a hitch thanks to the usual dedicated efforts of the QRS guys and girls. A great mix of low and mid power rockets were flown. We had a total of 43 flights, of which 27 were low power and 16 were mid power.

We would like to thank everyone for coming along and showing interest in our hobby, and hope to see you again at our future launches.

The gallery for this launch can be found here (new window), and the forum thread can be found here (new window, starts at posts made after the launch).

QRS next public launch is the 13th April 2008. All public are welcome to attend for another fantastic day of rocket flying.

New members are invited to bring friends and family to share this exciting hobby.

Congratulations to Rod Dunn from Jimboomba who has won the Aerotech Initiator Advanced Model Rocket System Package kindly donated by Australian Rocketry.

Australian Rocketry also donated 2 motors so Rod can fly his Initiator at a QRS launch day. The total prize package was valued at $420!

Our February Launch is fast approaching and with our last turnout of over 120 people we are hoping for an evening bigger and better launch.

On the books we have some larger rockets and motors which should really push the limits of model rocketry and look absolute amazing.

Be sure not to miss out as we will have a special sausage sizzle happening. Our friends at Australian Rocketry (www.ausrocketry.com.au) have also donated an Aerotech Initiator Starter Kit valued at over $400 for us to raffle off! There will be limited tickets available, so make sure you dont miss out on the chance for this amazing Mid Power Kit

Queensland Rocketry Society was today (07/12/07) featured on the front page of "Courier Mail Today" section. We have been fortunate enough to get some good coverage for this coming Sunday launch (09/12/07).

It is great to see the sport of rocketry being noticed and we hope to see you at the launch.

Launches are from 7:30am - 1pm (The earlier the better)

QRS Rocketry Range is located at 39 Cedar Pocket Rd, Cedar Grove

Queensland Rocketry TShirts have now arrived and are available at launches or by mail.

Support QRS by purchasing one of our fantastic TShirts which also look great with the QRS Patches. The shirts are only $22.50 and available in all sizes.

Please Contact Ari by email or phone to organise a QRS TShirt or grab one at the next launch. Thanks for your support and happy flying :-)

On Thursday 15 November, Blake, Petar and Ari visited Bribie Island High School and gave a 90min presentation about rocketry. Over 100 yr8 and yr9 students listened attentively as the history of the Saturn V rocket and its mission to the moon was given. All of the stages of the Saturn V were shown on a scale model that was dissassembled to show the complexity of what left the Earth and the simplicity of what returned.